Academics 'want clocks to go back to a world before 2015', says Fundraising Regulator

Ian MacQuillin and Adrian Sargeant have called for responsibility for the Code of Fundraising Practice to be taken from the regulator and returned to fundraisers

The Fundraising Regulator has said that a paper from two fundraising academics that called for responsibility for the Code of Fundraising Practice to be removed from the regulator and returned to fundraisers "calls for the clocks to go back to a world before the 2015 scandals".

It said that "rather than create a further series of knee-jerk and bespoke adjustments to the code", there should be "a systematic review of the underlying ethical frameworks that should be shaping our decision-making".

But in a blog post published on Third Sector today, Stephen Service, policy manager at the Fundraising Regulator, says MacQuillin and Sargeant were treating the fundraising scandals of 2015 as a "historical anomaly".

Service argues that the code, which was previously overseen by the Institute of Fundraising but was passed to the regulator after Sir Stuart Etherington’s review of fundraising self-regulation, has not left the fundraising community.